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Command Line interface in pYthon

CLY is a Python module for simplifying the creation of interactive shells. Kind of like the builtin cmd module on steroids.

It has the following features:

Tab completion of all commands.
Contextual help.
Extensible grammar - you can define your own commands with full dynamic completion, contextual help, and so on.
Simple. Grammars are constructed from objects using a convenient function-like syntax.
Grammars can also be defined in XML, facilitating a more data-driven approach.
Flexible command grouping and ordering.
Grammar parser, including completion and help enumeration, can be used independently of the readline-based shell. This allows CLY's parser to be used in other environments (think web-based shell ;))
Lots of other cool stuff.

Please check existing bugs first in case your issue has already been reported.

If it hasn't proceed create a new ticket.

Normal Python package installation procedures apply:

# python setup.py build
# python setup.py build_ext -i
# python setup.py test
# python setup.py install

This will compile, test and install CLY and the CLY Readline extensions.

I suggest talking a walk through the tutorial first, then refer to the documentation index for more information.

Latest stable versions can be downloaded from the Cheese Shop.

Download a ZIP of trunk from here, browse the code, or check out the source with Subversion:

svn co http://swapoff.org/svn/cly/trunk cly

[604] by athomas on 03/05/09 03:54:54

Fix Base64 regex. Thanks Daniel. Fixes #102 (again).

[603] by athomas on 27/04/09 03:51:02

Add Base64 to all.

[602] by athomas on 27/04/09 03:36:04

Add BinASCII support. Fixes #102. Thanks dcooper@…!

[601] by athomas on 17/04/09 09:24:25

Renamed cprintstrip() to cstrip().

[600] by athomas on 17/04/09 00:11:50

Add support for console codes to the prompt.

[599] by athomas on 16/04/09 21:12:18

Doc cleanup.